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Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be ignorant...
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Memory is the...
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Source: De Oritare.
-- Marcus...
The mansion should...
The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
It is foolish...
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with...
Orators are most...
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Source: In
Nothing contributes to...
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of...
As I approve...
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has...
There never was...
There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
Source: In...
When you are...
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third...
They condemn what...
They condemn what they do not understand.
Source: In
Ability without honor...
Ability without honor is useless.
Source: In
There is no...
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
Source: In
While there's life,...
While there's life, there's hope.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...
No well-informed person...
No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
When you have...
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Source: In Webster's...
The causes of...
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Source:...
Silence is one...
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Source: In
You will be...
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Source: In
The injuries that...
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately...
No one is...
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
Source: De Senectute,...